Aidas Bendoraitis wrote:
> Hello Django Professionals!
>
> I am making a Django-based website that has to be multilingual.
Me too. :-)
> Everything is clear about making the admin section and the templates
> translatable. The problem is multilingual objects.
>
> I could think of several approaches to implement internationalization
> for Django objects:
>
> 1. Use special tagging inside the translatable fields, i.e.
> <%en%>Title<%/en%><%de%>Titel<%/de%><%lt%>Pavadinimas<%/lt%>
> (this is not usable for common people, administrating the site and
> tricky for implementing searches and other functionalities)
I don't like this.
> 2. Create class attributes for every single translatable field, i.e.
> title_en = models.TextField(verbose_name=_("English Title"));
> title_de = models.TextField(verbose_name=_("German Title"));
> title_lt = models.TextField(verbose_name=_("Lithuanian Title"));
> (it's not flexible, because you can't add languages dynamically)
I'm leaning toward this. Yes, it's not flexible, but it's YAGNI for me,
and the simplifying gains are huge.
> 3. Create a separate DB table for every model that has translatable fields
> The table would contain
> - model_id
> - translatable fields (title, description)
> - language_id (or code)
> (I find this way the most proper for implementing multilingual
> objects, but.. (read further))
Complex, ugly.
There's also another approach: use translation tables for content, same
as it is done for the app interface. I don't like that either.
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